HamaTech AG
Decline in revenues and earnings in the financial year of 2005
Corporate-news transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
——————————————————————————
Decline in revenues and earnings in the financial year of 2005
Sternenfels, 31 March 2006 – STEAG HamaTech AG, manufacturer of equipment
for the production of optical storage media and Advanced Process Equipment
(APE) for the semiconductor industry, sees its forecasts for the past
financial year confirmed. Group revenues are at € 105.2 million (previous
year: € 149.0 million). Earnings Before Taxes (EBT) are at € -11.5 million.
A partial depreciation on the position “Deferred Tax Assets” amounting to €
11.7 million which was carried out as of 30 September 2005, has negatively
affected Earnings After Taxes, amounting to € -23.4 million for 2005
(previous year: € -3.2 million). While the business segment Optical Disc
shows Earnings Before Taxes of € -8.0 million in 2005 (previous year: €
-0.6 million) the APE segment accounts for Earnings Before Taxes of € -3.1
million (previous year: € +1.8 million).
The earnings situation in 2005 results from difficult market conditions in
the market for optical discs in 2005 and represents a significant
deterioration compared to the situation in the financial year of 2004.
Industry experts declared a decline of the total market in 2005 of more
than 50% compared to the previous year. STEAG HamaTech will counteract the
difficult earnings situation through further savings in material costs and
personnel expenses as announced earlier.
While order entry declined significantly from € 145.9 million in 2004 to €
93.1 million in the past financial year, order backlog as of 31 December
2005 was at € 42.6 million and thus 21% below the figure of last year which
was at € 53.9 million.
In the Optical Disc segment, the DVD/R format contributed € 42.2 million
(previous year: € 62.5 million) while the DVD-ROM format contributed € 14.9
million (previous year: € 20.1 million) to the order entry. The APE segment
showed an order entry of € 19.9 million (previous year: € 20.1
million).
For further information, please contact:
STEAG HamaTech AG
Ferdinand-von-Steinbeis-Ring 10
75447 Sternenfels / Germany
Internet: http://www.steag-hamatech.com
Joachim Eppinger
CFO
Phone: +49 7045 / 41-155
Fax: +49 7045 / 41-119
investor-relations@steag-hamatech.com
(c)DGAP 31.03.2006
—————————————————————————
language: English
emitter: STEAG HamaTech AG
Ferdinand-von-Steinbeis-Ring 10
75447 Sternenfels Deutschland
phone: +49 (0)7045/41-122
fax: +49 (0)7045/41-1392194
email: melanie.prengel@steag-hamatech.com
WWW: www.steag-hamatech.com
ISIN: DE0007309007
WKN: 730900
indexes: CDAX, PRIMEALL
stockmarkets: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin-Bremen, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München,
Stuttgart
End of News DGAP News-Service
—————————————————————————
Aktuelle News
Aktuelle Berichte
Anstehende Events
Keine Events gefunden
Webcasts
Keine Webcasts gefunden